They took the liberty of bringing their own chairs and began to spread out their own lunch at his table.
Yuzuru frowned, but since he couldn’t possibly do something like dropping their lunch on the floor by sweeping it off with his hand… he kept his mouth shut instead.
“Why did you have a fight with Arisa-san?”
Soichiro asked Yuzuru this right out at the start.
Yuzuru’s eyes widened.
“…how did you figure that out?”
“It would be weird if we didn’t.”
Yuzuru’s question was met with a wry smile from Hijiri.
The two who were so much in love with each other were not coming to school together.
In fact, they didn’t even talk to each other.
Yuzuru eats ready-made bread instead of his lovingly prepared lunch box.
One didn’t have to be a great detective to know that this was an unusual situation.
“…it’s not my fault.”
Yuzuru said as if he was making excuses for the two of them.
It is Arisa who’s weird for being hung up in something like this for so long.
I never said anything wrong in the first place.
It is not my fault.
Even if there was something a little wrong on my part, Arisa’s was worse.
…that’s why Yuzuru had no intention of apologizing from his end.
“Well, I guess you’re right.”
“I understand… women are so unreasonable.”
Soichiro and Hijiri agreed with Yuzuru’s words.
Why they fought, of course, the two of them did not know.
They couldn’t even guess.
However, they both believed that Yuzuru would never do anything weird.
If the two had fought, they were sure that it would be Yukishiro Arisa who would be at fault.
…this decision was natural since Yuzuru had a longer “history” as a friend to both of them.
“But hey, it can’t stay that way forever, can it?”
“There are times when a man has to back down, even when he thinks it’s not his fault. Don’t you agree?”
Soichiro and Hijiri reminded him as they were admonishing him …
Yuzuru gave an indescribable look.
Surely it will never end if he doesn’t apologize first.
He will be left fighting with Arisa forever.
Yuzuru was dimly aware of that.
He also knew that, as time passed, their relationship could fade away.
…that alone was the last thing he wanted.
But…
“No, but it is for Arisa’s sake that…”
“Okay, we’ll listen to you.”
“Tell us about it. We’ll be the judge.”
Soichiro and Hijiri said with a smile.
Yuzuru felt his heart lighten a little.
–Friendship and love are precious because they cannot be broken by money and can be relied upon in times of need.
He felt like he heard his father’s words from some time back.
“Actually…”
TN: The author is yet to decide the title of this volume.. I’ll update it once he decides it…